NIGERIA, PHILLIPINES TO STRENGTHEN LABOUR COOPERATION
Oru Leonard
The Federal Government of Nigeria has expressed readiness to strengthen the existing labour cooperation with the government of the Republic of the Phillipines.
Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, stated this when he received the Secretary, Migrant Workers, Republic of the Philippines, Hon. Hans Leo J. Cacdac and his team, on a visit to the Minister in Abuja.
Dingyadi welcomed the plan by the government of the Republic of the Philippines to set up a Labour Desk in Nigeria, and promised the needed cooperation.
He noted that cooperating with the Philippines in that area would not only protect the interest of the workers, and the two countries, but also deepen the long-standing relationship between them.
The Minister said, “I want to assure you that we are ready to partner with you in this area. Nigeria has a long-standing bilateral relationship with your country in other areas, including economy and socio-cultural. If we deepen and promote that relationship, it will be mutually beneficial to the two countries.
Earlier, the Secretary, Migrant Workers, Republic of the Philippines, Hon. Hans Leo J. Cacdac, had stated the desire of the government of the Phillipines to set up a labour desk under its embassy in Nigeria, to coordinate the affairs of the Filipino migrant workers in the country.
He disclosed that there are about four thousand Filipino migrant workers in Nigeria, engaged in jobs essential to the economy of both Nigeria and the Philippines.
(FMOL Press, 14 August 2025)
